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Court Upholds 3-Year Prison Sentences against Two Defendants in Political Case
2019-03-20
The first High Criminal Court of Appeal in Bahrain rejected the appeal of a young man accused of hiding in his grandfather's home in Samaheej and his aunt’s husband for helping him hide, upholding sentences of three years' imprisonment against both.
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Ibrahim Sharif Sentence Suspended for 3 Years
2019-03-19
The Third High Criminal Court ordered to suspend the execution of the 6-month prison term issued against prominent opposition leader and former Secretary-General of Wa'ad Ibrahim Shairf to 3 years, from the date of issuing the verdict.
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Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence, Citizenship Revocation against Defendant in Political Case
2019-03-19
The First High Appeals Criminal Court upheld life sentence and citizenship revocation against a suspect accused in a political case.
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Appeals Court Abolishes 3-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Assembling, Returns Case to First-Instance Court
2019-03-14
5 years after being convicted of assembling and burning tires on public street in Al-Juffair in 2014 and after being sentenced to 3 years in jail. The defendant appealed the verdict but he wasn't informed about the hearings and didn't attend them, thus the verdict was voided. Therefore, the high appeal criminal court abolished the ruling and decided to refer the case back to the original court to re-issue the verdict.
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Bahrain Opposition Figure Gets 6 Months for Sudan Tweet
2019-03-14
A prominent opposition politician in Bahrain faces up to six months in prison for a tweet about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
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Court Upholds Life Term Sentences against Two Defendants in Political Case
2019-03-14
The High Appeals Court upheld life term sentences against two suspects in a political case and fined them 500 BD.
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Ebrahim Sharif Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail over Charge of Insulting Omar Al-Bashir, Amnesty Considers Verdict Flabbergasting
2019-03-14
A Bahrain court sentenced opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif to six months in jail and 500 BD fine to stop the execution of sentence after a Bahraini court convicted him of "insulting president of a foreign country".
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Court Upholds 5-Year Jail Term against Defendant Accused of Assembling in Abu Saiba
2019-03-13
The First High Criminal Appeals Court upheld prison verdict against an appellant out of 13 suspects over assembling case in Abu Saiba.
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Court Upholds 3&10-Year Jail Term against 5 Suspects Accused of Detonating Gas Cylinder Near National Bank of Bahrain
2019-03-12
The High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 3 and 10-year jail term against 5 suspects accused, along with a sixth suspect, of blasting a gas cylinder in front of National Bank of Bahrain in Sitra in January 2017. All the suspects, expect the fifth, appealed the verdict.
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Court Rejects Appeals of Suspect Sentenced to 5 Years in Jail in Politically Motivated Case
2019-03-12
The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of a Bahrain sentenced to 5 years in jail in a political case.
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Defendant Accused of Beating Youth Claiming He is Informant
2019-03-08
The High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 7-year jail term against Bahraini convicted, along with 3 others, of kidnapping a youth, beating him in Dar Kulaib farm and forcing him to confess in front of a video camera that he is an informant and posting the video on website of "Bahraini uprising intelligence".
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Defendant, Revokes his Citizenship over Assembling in Karzakan
2019-03-06
The First High Criminal Appeals Court upheld the 7-year-jail verdict issued against a defendant accused of assembling and hurling Molotov cocktails and revoked his citizenship.
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Appeal Court: 3 Acquittals of "Money Laundering" Charges, Each Fined 500 Dinars for Collecting Funds without License
2019-03-06
The Bahraini High Court of Appeal upheld the acquittal of three defendants accused of laundering money obtained from crimes, while each defendant was fined 500 dinars for collecting funds without a license and sending them to a private institution in Tanzania, which was arranged by the third defendant residing in Iran.
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Court Upholds 3-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Assembling in Al-Nuaim
2019-03-05
The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court objected the appeals of a suspect out of 3 accused of assembling and upheld the 3-year jail term against him.
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Life Sentences and 15-Year Prison Terms Handed down to Defendants for “Forming Revolution Intelligence Agency”
2019-03-04
The First High Criminal Appeal Court in Bahrain rejected the appeal of eight convicts in a case known as the “Secret Intelligence Agency of the Revolution in Bahrain (SIA)”.
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Appeals Court Upholds 5-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Burning Tires in Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah Street
2019-03-02
The First High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of a youth out of two accused of assembling and burning tires and upheld his 5-year jail verdict. Meanwhile, the second suspect appealed his ruling earlier which was also upheld.
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Appeal Court Upholds Death Penalty Handed down to Asian Nationals in Another Murder Case
2019-03-01
The High Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence issued against two Asian nationals convicted of killing another Bengali citizen and disposing of his body by placing it in a large bag and dumping it next to a garbage dump in Manama in April 2013, the case referred for a second time from the Court of Cassation.
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Appeals: Case of Two Death Convicts in Drug Case Adjourned until March 25 for Ruling
2019-02-25
The High Appeals Court set March 25 as a date to issue its ruling in the appeals of two death convicts and 5 others accused of forming a cell to bring in narcotics in car tires after smuggling them through King Fahd Causeway.
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Court Upholds 7-Year Jail Term against Suspect Accused of Attacking Police Patrol in Diraz
2019-02-21
The First High Criminal Appeals Court issued 7-year jail term against one appellant out of 26 suspects accused of attacking police patrol in Diraz and ordered the confiscation of seized items.
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Court Upholds 3&5-Year Jail Term against 10 Defendants Accused of Kidnapping Youth, Claiming He is Informant
2019-02-21
The High Appeals Court upheld the rulings issued against 10 appellants convicted over charge of kidnapping a youth, claiming he is an informant.